COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Silver futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 21,167 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 20,328 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 805 contracts on 7 May 2013; they recorded their maximum of 26,985 on 5 November 2019; they had an average value of 14,861.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 18142.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 20328.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 21167.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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